Looking south across King Street, you will see a Winery. Notice that many of the vineyards surrounding the winery are located on a plateau beneath the escarpment but slightly above the level where you are standing. These plateaus are known as "benches." Made up of soil washed down over the millennia from the top of the escarpment. The flavor of the wine grown in these bench vineyards is substantially different from that of the lower vineyards, typically exhibiting more flinty and slate notes on the palate.